Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-14
FLORIDA.

st. James City, Pine Island, has now
post Office.
Circuit Court sor Gadsden county will
commence on April Il.
Measles have been raging IN the Poplar
Springs neighborhood, and are common
now.
The Palatka News now prints portion
OF the Associated Press dispatches, and
has been enlaged and otherw wise improved.
The Clay County Guards are making
arrangements to participate in the OBJ
seduies OF the late Gen. Loring, which
will take place on March is.
John Christian and Joe Ashley
took 430 alligator hides to Fort
MOralez. They also had few bird
plumes. They were gone several weeks
on their hunt.
A dispatch from DIR. w. r. Zoos, at
Punta Rsssa, to Marshal It. W. Lang
ford. of Fort Myers, informed him that he
caught the negro who killed another
colored man at Trabue, on the night Of
March 3, by cutting his throat.
At Gainesville the Berean Presbyte-
rian church (colored) has purchased lot
upon which the church building will be
erected. The members are now engaged
in repairing their present building OF
USE
Mr.. Cherry, we'll known at Highland,
was robbed last Friday night OF $500 in
gold and about $100in currency. He was
repairing a saw mill, and placed his coat
with the money in the engine room. On
returning he found the money gone.
In the matter of the temporary injunc-
ton, restraining the Green Cove Water
Company from sinking artesan wells
along w alnut stree in the vicinity of the
Spring Park, Judge Baker has rendered
a final decision. The injunction has beer
made permanent, and the whole costs
nave been thrown upon the water COM
pany, The Supreme Court Is open for an
appeal, and the company may feel dis
posed TO invest an additional sum OF
money in legal expenses.
The following civil appointments have
been made during the past week: NJ.
Markwalter, to be Justice of the Peace
in and for Orange county: Benjamin &.
Sharpe, to be Justice Of the Pc ace In and
for fernando county; Jerry 60 oge, to be
Justice of the Peace in and for Nassau
county; Samuel j. Erwin, to be Superin-
tendent OF Public Instruction in aud tor
Jackson county; s. II. Bitch, to be
Member of the Board of Medical Exam
iDers in and for Marion county; Il. T
Ellison, TO be Assessor of Taxes in and
for Madison county; w. G. Rowland, to
be Inspector OF Timber and Lumber IN
and for Nassau county; +. Croft, TO be
Justice of the Peace in and for fernando
county; 5. K. TimmOns, to be Assessor OF
Taxes In and for Putnam county; Adam
McNealy, TO be County Commissioner in
and for jackson county; L. L. Bowling,
to be superintendent of Public Instruo-
tion in and for Bradford county; Charles
S. Williams, to be Notary Public In and
for the State at large.
Once over the bar at it's entrance from
the gulf, the Suwannee river holds its way
with deep current in places of forty
feet, far up through the forests of the best
hard pine in the State. 1t Is the Penob-
scot OF Florida. 1t has some good land
upon IL, where plantations have hereto
fore been made, but after while gener-
ally abandoned The mosquitoes and
malaria guard in the nam entrance
against other than lumbermen, anglers
and intrusive tourists. This dark river
has, too, its romance as being the
place which gave rise 10 a melcdy
which, like "Sweet Home," the affection
OF the heart will never let go. For IL was
here that a French family in the tine Of
Louis XIV. came over and settled upon
the Suwannee aud made "a plantation.
After while the father aud mother and
all died save one daughter who, dis
heartened and desnlate, returned to
France, and there wrote, adopting in
part that negro dialect, which she had
been familiar with on the plantation OF
her girlnood, a feeling tribute 10 "the old
folks at home" ia their graves ia the FAR
oil country